Solr: how to highlight the whole search phrase only?

Question

A I need to perform a phrase search. On the search results Im getting the exact phrase matches but looking at the highlighted parts I see that the phrase

Answer 1

Looking at the docs I have found an option to join a highlight for elements that are next to each other.

The option is hl.mergeContiguous

Answer 2

The parameter that needed to be inserted was hl.q which basically means "I want this phrase to be highlighted" and hl.usePhraseHighlighter=true and hl.useFastVectorHighlighter=true

So by adding to my original query : &hl.q="Day+1"&hl.usePhraseHighlighter=true&hl.useFastVectorHighlighter=true worked.

for B) I changed fq = post:"day 1" OR title:"day 1" to fq = post:"day 1". I know that the latter is less from what I need be neverthless is works.

fastVectorHighliter configuration that was used:

   <field name="post" type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="true" required="true" multiValued="false"  termVectors="true" termPositions="true" termOffsets="true"/>